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Ukraine has exchanged the pro-Russian politician and oligarch close to the Kremlin Viktor Medvechukdetained in kyiv months ago, by more than 200 Ukrainian prisoners, including those he considers “heroes” of the Azov Regiment, and ten other captives of other nationalities who had been captured by Russia during the war in ukraine.

The exchange of prisoners took place this Wednesday after months of negotiations between the two countries, since last April Medvedchuk himself, close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and then detained by the kyiv authorities, requested through a video that be exchanged for Ukrainian civilians and soldiers who were resisting in Mariupol.